14 years ago I became obese even though I was eating healthy. 
As a health conscious holistic nutritionist I was eating a whole food diet. And yet I was a size 16.

It made zero sense to me that the same diet that kept me thin in my 20's, had me obese by my mid thirties.

I had to go on an inner journey to overcome the futility that I felt within, find the root cause, unlearn conventional ideas about weight loss and gain authentic weight loss wisdom based on hormonal physiology - not calorie theory.

As the result of what I learned, I dropped 12 dress sizes without exercise or counting a single calorie. 

Mainstream practitioners and other weight loss experts give you little more than a reduced calorie diet, you won't find that here.

Instead with me, you'll get principles you can sustainably live by, not more patronizing advice like "eat less and move more" (like as if you haven't already tried that, only to have it backfire). 

What separates me from other weight loss mentors:

1. I’ve been in your shoes – I am not one of those make it look easy fitness junkies or ‘always been skinny chicks’ who just doesn't understand why you can’t stick with counting calories or an exercise routine. I too can’t be bothered to count anything and I would much rather ‘work’ than work out! I've experienced the shame and the embarrassment too - to add fuel to the fire, as a holistic nutritionist, people expect me to be a pillar of health, not walking around wearing a health issue for all the world to see!
2. I don't use calorie counting or fitness routines to force your body to submit to your intention to lose weight, leaving you starving deprived and feeling exhausted ready to reward yourself with cake and then trigger a binging cycle where you are left back at an even higher weight, disappointed, futile, ashamed and embarrassed about being right back where you started. Instead we focus on the root causes of your weight gain and address them head on, so that you stop watching your weight and instead focus on your health, your life, self actualization and living to your full potential!
3. I am not a just someone who lost weight and is only showing you what I did, and hoping it works as well for you as it did for me. As a holistic nutritionist, I know that there is no one size fits all approach to weight loss, and that's why we dive deep into you as an individual to see what your unique body needs.
4. I have maintained my weight and the Delish Diet(a) lifestyle for almost 15 years now. I don't pretend to be perfect and I don't have a model body, but I have kept the weight off (mostly) for well over a decade (with a few ups and downs along the way, because life happens) . I've stayed the course through intense stress, like divorce, college in my late 40's and menopause. The truth is that everyone has challenges and no one is perfect. A huge part of the path of success with permanent weight loss is learning how to get back on track ASAP - despite life's inevitable ups and downs.
5. I've lost weight through both peri and menopause, so I know this through experience. I am living testament to the fact that you don't have to settle and succumb to gaining excess weight. Our adrenals take over for our ovaries to produce our sex hormones, so what we really need to be focusing on is adrenal health (makes hormones), and increasing our the nutritional building blocks of hormones (so that our adrenal have raw materials to work with), while optimizing liver health (the liver regulates our hormones). 
6. As a holistic nutritionist with 30+ years experience in the natural health field and a 3rd year student of medical herbalism, everything I teach is aligned with natural health principles - no counting calories, fad diets or starvation. I am also a very spiritually based person and include energy medicine in my practice from chakra work, to emotional release techniques and Reiki to flower essence medicine.  Everything I offer is nature based from the custom herbal blends I formulate as a herbalist, to the natural beauty rituals I support you to embody as an aesthetician.

You are in the right place if you want to be mentored by someone who's been where you are, who's done the work themselves and is still doing the work.

The word diet was hijacked by the weight loss industry.

The original root of the word "diet" comes from the Greek word díaita - which means 'a way of living', including food and other daily habits. 

You don't need to "go on a diet", but you do have a natural díaita. If you want to be a natural weight, then you need the natural díaita of the human species..... the one the creator provided to meet our natural human needs - body, mind, emotion and soul.

At its root the word "diet" was never about restriction.

It's about how we live day to day - how we eat, move, rest, and care for ourselves. When your daily habits support your natural human needs- body, mind, emotion, and soul - your weight regulates itself naturally because your body has what it needs to function optimally - instead of being distressed by nutritional deficiencies, stress and toxins.

The Delish Diet(a) Protocol and path is about returning to a way of eating and living that embodies real nourishing food in its natural form, supportive daily rhythms, and an environment that helps you thrive. This isn’t about perfection or punishment. It’s about alignment with your inherent needs so that your body has what it needs to create optimal health.

Taking your health into your own hands is what returns you to your natural weight.

Many people think that losing weight creates health, but it's actually the other way around - getting healthy results in weight loss, naturally. 

Fat is not the cause of being overweight. Fat is an effect. The truth is that your extra body fat is a symptom of other things being out of balance in your life. 

If you keep focusing on the fat and pushing against it with starvation and exercise, all that does is exacerbate the underlying issues that caused the issue in the first place - if you keep trying diet"ing"over and over only to gain the weight back, you are on the diet rollercoaster and you'll always struggle with your weight.

Being overweight is a symptom of an underlying health issue(s) begging you for attention. 

You are in the right place if you want to stop treating symptoms and instead pull out the root cause(s) of your issues with your weight.

The Delish approach to weight loss is rooted in natural health, physiology and the hormonal basis of obesity (how the body actually works to release body fat). 

Calories are not the cause of your issues with your weight and that's why they are NOT the solution. Your extra body fat is not a 'calories in and calories out' 'thing', it is a hormones, nutrients & metabolic health 'thing'. If you actually do eat too many calories, the root cause is the foods you are choosing and how they cause you to overeat and be attracted to foods that hurt you (eating too many calories is a symptom, not a cause of being overweight). 

We do not follow government RDA's or food guides, nor do we use one size fits all plans or follow diet trends.

We won't be counting calories or doing either to try to beat your body into submission. Yes your body needs movement to be healthy - and in many cases recomposition - but more unnatural "exercise" isn't the answer. Your cellulite and stubborn fat areas don't need unnatural "exercise", they need attention in the form of bodywork, nutrition, hydration and detoxification, NOT punishment. 

Natural diet(a) + natural lifestyle + natural health principles + natural life purpose = natural weight & shape

Just like all the other animals, if we want to be healthy, we need to live in a way that is natural to our species and when our health is out of balance, we use the creator's medicine to bring us back to health through nature's wisdom.

Inside the UN-diet School, you'll learn exactly how to do that, step-by-step.

Releasing the weight naturally without diet"ing" is an inside-out job.

Your extra body fat has a message for you about what needs to change (in both your inner life and in your outer life). 

It's time now to put your health first to address the real authentic reasons you struggle with weight and use your weight loss journey as a catalyst to transform your life.

Here are some examples of areas we focus on to get to the root cause of your issues with your weight:

Environmental:

• Processed foods and eating out
• Unsupportive partner/family or friends who sabotage your efforts
• Lack of resources or correct information
• etc.

Physical Issues:

• Nutritional deficiencies 
• Toxicity
• Body system and organ imbalances
• etc.

Mental:

• Programmed by the diet mentality and keep reverting back to things that don't work for you long term
• Think your body is failing you and want someone outside yourself to 'fix' it  
• Looking for quick fixes and resisting putting the time in to learn something new
• etc.

Emotional:

• Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
• Your primary relationship feels like dead weight
• Life feels heavy and hard
• etc.

Soulful:

• Identifying as a fat or unattractive person
• Feel held back & not living to your potential
• Disconnected from nature and the creator 

These are just some examples. You might relate to all of them or just a few - regardless they are roots you need to pull up.

Once the weeds are pulled out and composted, next it is time to plant new seeds by learning something new and more importantly - apply it. 

That's what the UN-diet School is all about. 

You are in the right place if you are ready to stop trying to fix the 'effect' and instead acknowledge and heal the root cause(s) - body, mind, emotion and soul.